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Late-Night/Early-Morning Thoughts on "Jackass 3-D"
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Love this review. However sincere you may or may not be, Brendan, I totally buy it. I've always appreciated the Jackass guys as kind-of-brilliant gonzo filmmakers and chaos-makers. I had a feeling that the third might disappoint, but there's no way I won't see it.
--Rev.
--Rev.
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The face plants bother me, having worked in emergency rooms, but anything having to do with penis or ass is entertainment at it's adolescent best!
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Deep critique, impressive! I always thought the Jackass movies were solely adolescent, which is why I liked them so much. Says a lot about me, I guess.
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Worst. Review. Ever.
Kiley, you need to stop hanging out with Mudede. Apparently asinine pretentiousness is catching.
Kiley, you need to stop hanging out with Mudede. Apparently asinine pretentiousness is catching.
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"In 1999, a struggling artist and writer named Johnny Knoxville invented the idea of Jackass, in which he and a group of friends would make Burden and Abramovic look like amateurs..."
Guess you haven't heard of Landspeed CKY.
Guess you haven't heard of Landspeed CKY.
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My understanding is that Jackass 3D is compiled of leftover footage from shooting #2. Nothing new has been done in years, and these were stunts that had ended on the cutting room floor, now in 3D for an extra $5.
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@ 4. Between the alcoholic blackouts, I slide into occasional streaks of clarity. Late-night writing is all about timing and rhythm.
@ 8. I have, in fact. But there was no time to dig into that. I had some pretentiousness to get to!
@ 11. Not really. Not nearly as funny as #2.
@ 8. I have, in fact. But there was no time to dig into that. I had some pretentiousness to get to!
@ 11. Not really. Not nearly as funny as #2.
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#8 is exactly right. The Landspeed and CKY (Camp Kill Yourself) videos made by a young Bam Margera (along with a few other people including Matt Damon's cousin) were the beginning. Spike Jonze who got his start as a skateboarding photographer showed it to MTV who then used a lot of the CKY stuff to create Jackass.
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And credit to the original "bullet through the apple" photographer Harold Edgerton (inventor of giant, record fast, strobes from way back).
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tl;dr
nobody cares about this crap anymore. Just go kill yourself and stop filming it so the rest of us can ignore you.
nobody cares about this crap anymore. Just go kill yourself and stop filming it so the rest of us can ignore you.
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Chris Burden did a piece where he lay strapped to a gurney in an elevator with a sign that said "Please push pins into my body." There was a box of thumbtacks next to him.
Only eight people took him up on it. Nowadays he'd probably end up exsanguinated.
Only eight people took him up on it. Nowadays he'd probably end up exsanguinated.
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@ 9 - Saw Johnny Knoxville on the Daily Show earlier this week, and he mentioned that they had to hire an entire new film crew because they were filming in 3-D for the first time, so I'm assuming it's at least mostly new footage.
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Are you talking about the "Pig Eating an apple out of an ass" scene?
If they had a version of this that didn't have all the gross-out humor, I'd probably be down. I'm with Doug Benson on that - when you describe it to someone it sounds like the funniest shit in the world, and when you see it, it's just uncomfortable.
and one or two other times
Are you talking about the "Pig Eating an apple out of an ass" scene?
If they had a version of this that didn't have all the gross-out humor, I'd probably be down. I'm with Doug Benson on that - when you describe it to someone it sounds like the funniest shit in the world, and when you see it, it's just uncomfortable.
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